The Forum’s programme combines multiple layers of meeting: in-person and digital, with both open-access and registration-based formats, and a mix of formal and informal settings.

These layers engage in dialogue, forming an organic body of experiences where listening, creation, and critical thinking nourish one another.

The in-person sessions include debates with national and international guests, held in venues such as auditoriums and partner institutions.

The informal sessions, held in taverns, hair salons, and thermal baths, bring the Forum closer to the lived city, activating everyday life as a political space.

Public space interventions, proposed by students through an open call, expand the Forum beyond its formal boundaries. The digital unconference, collectively designed by participants, introduces a horizontal and self-organised logic of programming and discussion.

The International Forum Citizenship through Aesthetics is for those who are restless — for those who embrace and disrupt, who act critically upon the world around them, on art and on citizenship.

For those who want to contribute to and reflect on the role of aesthetic production in the making of communities. For those who explore multiple avenues of civic action, and who intertwine ways of thinking and contemplating. For those who move between art, philosophy, and science.

The Forum is for those who think critically about the connection between art and citizenship — people who question the role of aesthetic production in building fairer, more balanced, and more conscious communities. Because we live in a time of growing instability, acute injustices, and deep inequalities between territories, voices, and ways of living.

For those who see artistic creation as a political, affective, and collective space. The Forum is a place where, through aesthetics, other forms of citizenship, relationship, and political imagination are explored — forms that can critically and sensitively inform our shared reality. To participate is to enter a territory where formats are reinvented and relationships are expanded.

Participants include artists from various fields, researchers, curators, cultural programmers, journalists, teachers, students, and activists.

It is designed for island residents, visitors, migrant communities, and all those who wish to think and act together. Because art plays a fundamental role in building other forms of citizenship — more sensitive, more attentive, more open.

It does not require institutional affiliation — only curiosity, a willingness to listen, and a desire to engage with the world. There are different ways to participate — in person or online, occasional or immersive — all equally valued.

Art plays a fundamental role in shaping other forms of citizenship — more sensitive, more attentive, more open.

Spaces that allow us to collectively and inclusively imagine the future are more necessary than ever.